As reviewed here by Craig Stoltz
American Gallery of Psychiatric Art: Sanity for Sale: 1960-2000
Here's a couple of nippets:
Some of the imagery is spectacularly revealing about drug makers' and clinicians' developing views of the mentally ill.
THE BOTTOM LINE
If the gallery makes you think psychiatry is moving entirely out of the Dark Ages, take a look at the final ad, from the '90s, for something called the Thymatron DGx brief pulse electroconvulsive therapy machine. Its headline: "Quality ECT, at last."
I shudder.
Tuesday, August 05, 2003
American Gallery of Psychiatric Art: Sanity for Sale: 1960-2000,
Labels:
disease mongering,
drug companies,
drugs,
ECT,
marketing,
USA
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